St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-22

orce from and after July 1st, 1887.
Approved Feb. 2Sth, 1887.
90.
AN ACT to provide for the collection of vital
Be it enacted by the Leg 1Slature of the State of
| Minnesota. &c
Is SECT1oNl1. The clerk of each town. and the
health officer OF each village, borough or city in
this state shall obtain and register the following
facts concerning the births and deaths occurring
| therein, separately numbering and recording the
! same III the order in which he obtains them,
| designated in separate columns, viz: In the
registry OF births, the date of birth, the name of
| the child IF it have any, the sex and color OF
| the child, the names and places of birth of the
parents, and the date OF the record: in the reg
! Istry of deaths, the date OF death, the sex and
| color, the condition, whether SINGLE widowed or
married, the names and places OF birth OF the
| date of the record. The county auditor OF each
county shall furnish each clerk or health officer
within his county, at the expense of the county,
a book i'll which to register the facts concerning
| the births and deaths as above provided. Pro-
vided, however, that in cities OF over 100,O 900
| inhabitants where the duties hereby imposed
| upon the health officer have heretofore been i'm
| posed upon the city clerk the latter shall con-
| tiuue TO perform the same and receive the COM
| pe1Sation therefor.
| SEC 2. Parents shall give notice to such clerk
or health officer of the births and deaths of their
| children; every householder shall give like no.
| tlce OF every birth and death happening in the
|
such notice OF the death of his kindred; the
| keeper or other proper officer of every work.
house, poorhouse, reform school, Jail, prison,
| hospital, asylum, or other public or charitable
institution shall give like notice of any birth or
death happening among the persons under his
| charge. Whoever neglects or refuses 10 give
such notice for the period of ten 40 days after
the occurrence of a birth death shall forfeit a
| sum not exceeding twenty (20) dollars, to be
collected as other fines are collected by law.
| SEC j. ANY physician having attended per-
|
days after the decease of such person, furnish
for registration to such clerk or health officer
certificate of the duration Of the last illness, the
name of the deceased, his age, the disease OF
| which the person died, and the date of his de-
| cease. And any physician or midwife having at
tended case OF confinement shall within ten Il o.
| days thereafter furnish for registration to said
clerk health officer certificate of the date of
birth. sex d color of the child, with the Names
dates and places OF birth of The p rents. If any
| physician or midwife neglects to make such GER
! tifioate, he shall forfeit the OF tw nty-fve
N25}td6llars to be collected other fines col
lected by law
| SEC 4 such clerk OF health officer shall, on
or before the fifth 81 day of each month. trans
nit to the secretary of the state board of health
and vital statistics. upon blanks to be furnished
| by said board. certified copy of the registry OF
| births and deaths which have occurred within
| such town. village, borough city during the
| calendar month Immediately preceding. For
obtaining registering and returning the facts
herein required such clerk or health officer shall
| be entitled to receive from the county treasury
of his county twenty-five go cents for each
| birth death so obtained registered and re-
| ported And for neglect to perform such duties
| as herein required. he shall forfeit sum not
exceeding fifty go dollars for each offense, to
be collected as other fines are collected.
| SEC. >. 1t shall be the duty of the state board
of health and v al statistics to prepare and fur
nish to such CLERKS and health officers suitable
| blanks and instructions fer the making OF the
returns herein provided for. And the secretary
of said state board of health and vital statistics
| shall annually on or before the fifteenth Q5) day
of x-nf0o &Iaa n1a o
the district court of each county all of the said
returns received by said secretary from such
clerks or health officers, in such county during
| the year ending on the last day OF the preced-
ing December, together with his certificate show
ing the aggregate number of births and deaths
so reported in such year by each such clerk an6
health officer.
SEC. 6. The said clerk of the district court
shall thereupon file the said returns so to him
transmitted in his office, and shall also issue tC
each such town clerk and health officer a GER
tificate showing the amount due to them re-
spectively for the obtaining, registering and re-
porting the births and deaths aforesaid as the
same may appear from the said certificate of
said secretary OF the state board of health and
vital statistics. For all his said services such
clerk of the district court shall be entitled tt
receive from the county treasurer OF his re-
spective county for recording such births and
deaths and making such abstract thereof as he
may by law be required to make, the sum of ten
(l0) cents for each such birth or death And fol
his failure TO perform any OF the duties herein
provided for such clerk of the district cour
shall forfeit the sum of fifty go dollars, to be
collected as other fines are collected
SEC. T. The county auditor OF each county
upon the presentation to him of the aforesaid
certificate Of the clerk of The district court OF
i his county, shall issue and deliver to each CLERK
i and health officer respectively his warrant uDon
Il the county treasurer for the amount in said GER
ltidcate stated To be due to such clerk or health
:; officer, and the county treasurer upon the pres
entation OF such warrant shall pay the same to
the person entitled thereto out Of the general
funds in The county treasury.
! SEC 8. To cover all clerk hire. stationery and
| incidental expenses OF the state board of health
and vital statistics under this act the sum OF
one thousand q 1000 dollars shall be and hereby
is annually appropriated
SEC g. Sections 81, 80, SO, "a and So O.
chapter six t6) OF General Statutes of S7S and
all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with
| this act are hereby repealed.
SEC 10 This act shall take effect and be in
| force from and after It's ssage
Approved March 9Th, 1857.